Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Another Side of the Question
Women get to tell their own story.
Today's NYTimes Critics' Pick film was the Egyptian
Women, in Egypt, tell their own tales on a television talk show designed ostensibly as a "personal story" show designed to avoid politics and to be targeted to women.
The politics become unavoidable as each woman tells her story of oppression.
While the film is feminist in its point of view there are no axes being ground.
It is pretty intense and turns out to be as hot politically as it could be. This causes some trouble for the host who, eventually, gets to tell her story of being suppressed personally.
It is certainly germane to the "Egypt situation" under Mubaryk who we see over someone's shoulder on the television.
Now it is all up in the air.
But the film was made before all that.
For an "issue picture" I liked it and it had a lot of suspense in each of the four stories being told. Really an anthology film with the same point of view.
A window in another world which seems westernized but isn't really.
I will give it a 3 out of Netflix5 as some of the setup seems a bit forced, nevertheless gets going once the stories start.
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